Animation Directory

Animation Journal - Peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to animation history and theory edited by Maureen Furniss.

Graphic Artists Guild - Promotes and protects the economic interest of its members. It is committed to improving conditions for all creators of graphic art and raising standards for the entire industry.

Animation Writers Caucus - The WGA's division dedicated to animation "For the best animation writers"

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) - AMIA is the world's largest professional association for film, television and video archivists.

National Cartoonists Society (NCS) - Organization aimed at promoting professional cartooning.

Animation Magazine - Animation industry magazine, with information about television, features, commercials, gaming, internet and more. Subscribe or renew your subscription.

Animation Blast - Animation magazine. Find out about the magazine, preview the latest issue, buy the latest issue, buy back issues and subscribe. Animation with attitude and completely independent.

FPS Magazine - The Frame Per Second Magazine. Reviews recent animation productions, buy animated DVDs, find out about career information for the industry, charity auctions and more.

Animation World Magazine - Sections include people, profiles, tutorials and reviews. They have special features for voice acting, production, gaming and technology. Many columns including producing animation, career coach and concept to creation

Society for Animation Studies - Read online some articles of the newsletter and announcements of upcoming events.

AWN - Animation World Network - www.awn.com

Pixar - Pixar's official website provides artistic and financial information about the Academy-Award-winning digital animation firm.

Dreamworks Animation - Official Site of DREAMWORKS

Walt Disney Animation Studios - Walt Disney Animation Studios combines the very best in artistry and storytelling with cutting-edge technology to bring wonderful new characters to the big screen.

Blue Sky Studios - Computer animation studio dedicated to creating high end character animation and visual effects for the commercial and feature film industries.

Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc - Website for Powerhouse Animation Studios

Sprite Animation Studios - "Owly" animation a hit at Comic-Con! SPRITE ANIMATION STUDIOS

LAIKA - LAIKA, an animation studio, is owned by Phil Knight, co-founder and Chairman of Nike.

Patch of Orange - Artist blog by Robin Joseph in Canada. Ability and imagination combined into regularly updated artwork. Constantly evolving and improving

The Blog of Kells - Tom posts about his adventures in producing an animated film. Find out about his world, color models, layout posing and more.

Chris Battle Illustration - Chris posts lost of samples of his work. See his doodle and musings and explorations with different facets of his craft

Cartoon Brew - Thoughts and musings of Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi on cartoons and the cartoon world. Find out about the latest developments, the movers and shakers, comic book reviews and more

Toon Zone - Lots of cartoon news, reviews, interviews, editorials and more. Browse the store, find out about upcoming events and comics and more.

Animation Artist - Aimed at animation industry professionals, Animation Artist has a career center, forums, reviews, tutorials and more. See the features and check out the downloads.

Cartoon Research - Portal about cartoon by Jerry Beck. Find out the latest news. See his commentary. Guide to American cartoons. Restoration of classic cartoons.

Cagle.com - Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index is a compilation of American editorial cartoons collected from many different sources.

Toonarific - Online encyclopedia of animated cartoons. Serves as an educational tool to people interested in studying animation in further depth.

BCDB - The Big Cartoon Database. Comprehensive information about cartoon. Find by name, by producing studio, by rating or popularity. Join the forum or keep up with cartoon news

ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society - We are a California non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the art of animation.

IMDb - Searchable index of more than 10000 animated TV series and movies.

Animation Library - Over 14000 Free Animations plus articles, reviews, tutorials, postcard, and everything else related to animated graphics.

Free animations @ Best Animations - bestanimations.com/

Animation Central - Animation Central serves up hundreds of free animations in easy to navigate categories on the best free animated gif archive on the net today.

Animation Factory - Animation Factory is your source for Powerpoint Templates, Powerpoint Backgrounds, Animated Clip Art and Video Backgrounds for use in web, email,etc.

Animation-Station.com - Free Animations and Free Backgrounds. Animation station has a HUGE collection of free animations and animated gifs.